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On this page:
• Performances of compositions
• Selected press for Gao Ping's music
• Links to articles about Gao Ping
2011
• June: Gao Ping’s Two Soviet Love Songs for Vocalizing Pianist receives a New York premiere by pianist Frederic Chiu at the Tenri Culture Centre in concert presented by the French recording label Harmonia Mudi.
Gao Ping presents two lecture recitals at the Sichuan Concervatory of Music and Sichuan Minority University. The program included music of Debussy, Takemitsu, and his own compositions.
• May: Gao Ping’s piano piece “Night Alley夜巷” was performed at Dresdener Musikfestspiele, Germany by pianist Zhang Hao-chen (winner of 2009 Van Cliburn Piano Competition).
On 1st of May, a story on Gao Ping was featured on TV1 (New Zeraland).
• April: completed piano suite “Outside the Window 窗外”. The 4-movements work was commissioned for a DVD release of 11 year-old piano prodigy Zhang Si-yin (also known as Niu Niu)from Beijing.
Sonatine (Dialogue Between Wind and Snow) for flute and piano was released on Atoll Label in a CD featuring flautist Adriana Lis and pianist Sarah Waltkins.
Pianist Shen Yuan performed Gao Ping’s Dance Fury 舞狂 and Night Alley夜巷 in his recitals in Beijing University and Univeristy of Southern California, USA
• March: Gao Ping completed Symphonic Song Cycle ‘Cherry Tree樱桃树’ for bass-baritone, mezzo-soprano (or counter-tenor) and orchestra, commission provided by Prof. Jack Richards. The 5- movement work is approximately 30 min. long and is based on stories of Tibet with text by Chinese writer Liu Chao-jun. Premiere will take place in Beijing in May 2012.
March 18th and 19th, Auckland International Arts Festival presented two works by Gao Ping: Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra (FCO) from Beijing made NZ premiere of Gao Ping’s “Qing Feng清风” (‘Pure Wind’) at the Auckland Festival at Auckland Town Hall. New Zealand String Quartet performed “Bright Light and Cloud Shaows天光云景”. FCO performed this work on the subsequent 5-city tour in NZ.
2010
• December: The Shanghai Music Publishing Company (SMPH & SLVA) released Gao Ping’s “Qing Feng” (CD11016) for 9 Chinese Instrumentalists recorded by the Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra.
• Nov. 7th, Berlin Piano-Percussion performed “the Mountain”
• October: Gu Ying 谷应(Valley Echoes Mov. I) for piano duet was published by Prometheans Editions.
Completed “Qing Feng” for 9 Chinese Instrumentalists, commissioned by the Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra from Beijing.
A recording of ‘Questioning the Mountains’ was released on Waiteata Press in a CD of NZ composers.
• 22nd of Oct, Master classes for piano students at Sichuanc Conservatory of Music Chengdu china.
Sept., Gao Ping gave a lecture at the Hangzhou conservatory of Music/Normal University. The lecture focused on contemporary performance practise and techniques of reading a score (performingToru Takemitsu’s Raintree Sketch).
• On August 2nd, Gao Ping gave a composition workshop at NZ school of music, Victoria University in Wellington.
• July New Zealand String Quartet recorded “Bright Light and Cloud Shadows天光云景” for Naxos label in a CD which includes works by Toru Takemitsu and Tan Dun.
• July 1st Solo recital at the Lunch Time Recital Series at the Great Hall, Christchurch. Music by Chopin, Gao Ping and Eve de Castro Robinson.
• May 30th, Gao Ping gave premiere performance of NZ composer Eve de Castro Robinson’s new work, And the Garden Was Full of Voices-a sound-cycle for vocalizing pianist, at the SOUNZtender concert in the Illot Theatre in Wellington Town Hall.
• May 23rd，duo recital with pianist Michael Houstoun at the Platform Festival, University of Canterbury. Program includes John Psathas’ Motet, Debussy’s Six Epigraphes, Ravel’s La Valse, and Gao Ping’s The Mountain.
• May 25， Premiere of Perhaps-Song of Burial II for voice and ensemble by Emma Johnston and Silencio Ensemble in Great Hall, Christchurch, NZ.
• April 23rd, Solo piano recital at the Kawai Recital Series, Queensland Conservatorium, Brisbane, Australia.. Music included Chopin, Ravel, and Shostakovich, a premiere of Gao Ping Perhaps-song of burial and an Australian premiere of Night Alley.
• April 12th-May 11th，Artist-in-Residence for 4 weeks in Queensland Conservatorium, Brisbane, Australia.. Activities included performing, teaching, coaching, and seminars.
• Guest appearances as a composer and a performer at the Encounter Music Festival (6-9 May, which celebrates 200 years China-Australia relationship.
• February, received the CANZ (Composer’s Association of New Zealand) Trust Fund Award.
2009
• Dec. guest recital and master-class at the Conservatory of Music, Hunan Normal University.
• Dec. Guo Yin Tang Lecture series at China Conservatory of Music in Beijing presented Gao Ping in a lecture on the subject of differences between Chinese and western music and contemporary trends of dealing with these differences.
• July. Piano Quintet “Mei Lan Zhu Ju” received premiere performances in Wellington and Christchurch at the CHCH International Arts Festival. Pianist John Chen, violinist Wilma Smith, and the T’ang Quartet from Singapore performed the piece along side with music by Schnittke and Dvorak. The work was subsequently performed by the same musicians at the Macao International Arts Festival in October.
• On 7th of July 2009, the NZ Trio premiered Gao Ping’s new work “Su Xie Si Ti” or “Four Sketches” for piano trio in the Great Hall during the Music’09 Music Education Conference, which commissioned the piece.
• On June 14th, Gao Ping played a duo recital with Edith Salzmann at the Capital Norma University with music by Gao Ping and Ceasar Franck. This concert is the first event of a new relationship between the University of Canterbury and the Chinese institution.
• Waiteata Music Press (Victoria University, Wellington) published Gao Ping’s 2008 “Questioning the Mountains” for violin and piano. The work was written in remembrance of the victims of the May ’08 earthquake in his home region-Sichuan.
• Gao Ping’s piano score “Blue Mask” (2002) was published by Peer Musik (Germany). The score is in an album of piano music called “Beyond Blues” which comes with a CD performed by Dutch pianist Marcel Worms.
• In Jan. 09, Gao Ping finished his Piano Quintet, “mei, lan, zhu, ju” which is a commission from the Christchurch International Arts Festival in 2009. The piece will be premiered during the festival by pianist John Chen and the T’ang string quartet from Singapore in August.
• On April 28th, GP played a solo recital in the Great Hall in Christchurch. Program includes a sonata by Haydn, 4 Preludes and Fugues by Shostakovich, and set of pieces by Ravel, as well as Gao Weijie’s 1987 “Autumn Wilderness”. GP also improvised on Haydn’s name.
• On April 1st, GP played a recital with cellist Edith Salzman in the Adams International Cello Festival in Christchurch. The program included Sonata No.1 and No.2 by GP and Orion by Toru Takemitsu.
2008
• Nov. 2008, GP recorded Gao Weijie’s 1987 piano piece Autumn Wilderness for a CD/DVD project “Chinese Pianist Playing Chinese Piano Music” in Beijing. His own 2006 “Night Alley” was included in the series as well, performed by Chinese pianist, Tong Bo.
• “Bright Light and Cloud Shadows” for string quartet was performed by the New Zealand String Quartet on their 2008 European tour of the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands.
• Gao Ping plays and conducts in Professor Gao Weijie’s celebration concert for his 70th birthday in the Beijing Concert Hall, December 2008.
• Gao Ping was the Composer-in-Residence at the 19th Port Fairy Music Festival in Australia in October 2008. He performed a recital which included his piano music as well as his 2nd Sonata for Cello and Piano with cellist Ewen Bramble. He also gave a public talk with the festival’s artistic director Stephen Mcintyre and Australian pianist Anna Goldsworthy.
• Gao Ping’s music (partial) for Rain of the Children, a film by Vincent Ward, won the Qantas Award for the best score.
• Night Alley and Just a Moment received US premiere by pianist Sheng Yuan in the International Piano Festival at the Mannes School of Music, New York, July 2008.
• Bright Light and Cloud Shadows was performed by the New Zealand String Quartet in the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington in Oct. 2008.
• Gao Ping was a guest performer and composer at the Music08 in Cincinnati, June 2008. He performed a recital which included piano music by himself, Jack Body and William Bocolm. He teamed up with Frederic Rzewski in a performance in his The Mountain for 2 pianos. He also played his father Gao Weijie’s The Way for violin and piano with Italian violinist Duccio Ceccanti. He gave a composition master-class.
• Gao Ping performed in the Kita-Kyushu Chamber Music Festival in Japan, June 2008. He played a duo recital with violinist Rieko Suzuki which included Mozart, Ravel, Takemitsu, Poulenc, Gao Ping and Gao Weijie. He also took the piano part of a performance of Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in the festival’s final concert.
• Gao Ping performed in two charity concerts for the victims of the Sichuan Earthquake in 2008. The first took place in Tokyo in June, with violinist Rieko Suzuki among other musicians. The second concert took place in the Te Papa Museum in Wellington in August.
• The Platform Arts Festival in Christchurch presented “The Storyteller and Other Musical Tales”, a concert of Gao Ping’s chamber music, in May, 2008. The program included “The Story Teller”, a half-hour long sextet, as well as several piano works by Gao Ping.
• Piano Concerto premiered in the Made in NZ concert in the Wellington Town Hall in May 2008. The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Kenneth Young, with the composer as piano soloist. Read the NZ Listener's review here.
• Concert tour of Japan, including an appearance at the Kita-Kyushu Chamber Music Festival, a concert in Tokyo to raise relief funds for the Sichuan Earthquake. June 2008.
• Concerts at Yokohama Museum with violinist Rieko Suzuki. April 2008
• Concert with Gao Ping's music including sextet The Story Teller, and vocalizing piano suite Concealed Kisses in the Great Hall, Christchurch, in the Platform Arts Festival.
• Concert in the Great Hall featuring Gao Ping and Canterbury music students, playing Gao Ping's music including a first performance of Questioning the Mountains for violin and piano. Also performed was Shostakovich's Piano Quintet.
• Charity concert in Te Papa National Musuem in Wellington, raising funds for the rebuilding of Mianyang College for Arts, which was damaged by the Sichuan earthquake.
• Distant Voices for piano won First Prize in the 4th Chinese Piano Music Competition in Hong Kong, January 2008.
2007
•
Jannes Rattya,
Finish accordionist performed Ping’s “Dance Fury-homage to
Astor Piazzolla” (arr. Rattya) in Shomrei Torah Temple in Santa
Rosa, USA, Musicum, Great Hall in Salzburg, Wien Modern festival, Hong
Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Sakaimoto, Matsue, Japan, 2007.
•
Night
Alley for solo piano, commissioned by the 4th China International
Piano Competition, was performed by all 12 semi-finalists during the competition
in October 2007. The competition was held in the coastal city of Xiamen.
GP was the guest of honor, presenting a lecture on the new piece.
• Bright Light and Cloud Shadows for string quartet was played by the New Zealand String Quartet on its tour of the USA in November 2007.
• Dance Fury-homage to Astor Piazzolla was recorded by New Zealand pianist Michael Houstoun on a CD released by Rattle Records in December 2007.
• Three concerts with violinist Rieko Suzuki in Tokyo, featuring music by Messiaen, Ravel, Poulenc, Brahms, Chick Corea, and Gao Ping, collaborating with three Japanese visual artists.
• Gao Ping was invited by Mrs. Irino to give a talk on his recent music at the JML.
• Gao Ping played his own works and Jack Body’s Sarajevo in a concert featuring New Zealand and Sichuan composers at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, December 2007.
• Gao Ping gave a lecture-recital in the Mian-Yang School of Arts, Sichuan, China. He was appointed as a guest lecturer in the school.
• Duo concert with Rieko Suzuki featuring works by Mozart, Brahms, Ravel, Gao Ping, and Qu Xiao-song, at the Capital Normal University in Beijing, November 2007.
• The Mountain for two pianists was performed by Frederic Rzewski and Ursula Oppens at the Berkeley Edge Fest, June 2007.
• Provided parts of the soundtrack for Vincent Ward’s new feature film “Rain of the Children”, October 2007.
• Provided improvised piano music for a New Zealand silent film show in the Christchurch International Arts Festival, July 2007.
• Performed in two concerts with piano ensemble works, including Darius Milhaud’s rarely-heard suite for 4 pianos “Paris”, in the Auckland International Piano Festival, June 2007.
• During a week as artist-in-residence at the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane in March 2007, GP played a piano recital with works by Gao Wei-jie, Gao Ping, Shostakovich and Poulenc, in the Kawai Piano Recital Series, and directed a concert of improvised music based on Chinese revolutionary songs with a student ensemble.
• Solo recital with works by Gao Wei-jie, Poulenc, Ross Carey, and Gao Ping in the Lunchtime Series at the Great hall, the Arts Centre, Christchurch, 9 March 2007.
• Conducted two premiere performances of a scene from Fatal Desire (with Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea), a chamber opera by Shen Na Lin during the Asia Pacific Music Festival (ACL), February 2007.
• Premiered New Zealand composer Ross Carey’s Great Wall, a piano cycle for vocalizing pianist, at the Asia Pacific Music Festival (ACL), February 2007.
• Played the piano solo in the premiere performances of Chinese composer Qu Xiao-song’s Cursive for piano, and three percussionists in Shanghai, November 2006.
• Participated as a keyboardist in the first China performance of John Zorn’s Cobra in D-22, Beijing, December 2006.
Performances of compositions:
•
Piano Concerto premiered in the Made
in NZ concert in the Wellington Town Hall in May 2008. The New
Zealand Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Kenneth Young
• Premiere performances of Gao Ping's new string quartet, Bright Light and Cloud Shadows by the New Zealand String Quartet in the Adam International Chamber Music Festival in Nelson in January 2007 and at the Asia Pacific Music Festival (ACL), in February 2007
• The Mountain for two pianos, performance at the Banff Centre for Music in Canada, January 2007
• Contemplating Tango for violin and piano, by Isin Cakmakcioglu and Danae Killian in a Melbourne Composer's League concert in Melbourne, Australia, October 2006
• Distant Voices for piano, performance at Carnegie Hall in NYC by pianist Wen Lei, December 2006
• Distant Voices for piano, performance in the International Piano Institute and Festival in Mannes School of Music, NYC, by pianist Sheng Yuan, July 2006
Selected press
for Gao Ping’s music (2006-07):
NZ Listener
(read full review here)
• “The Mountain, a superb and often sweepingly beautiful work for two pianos composed in 2004 by Gao Ping.”
San
Francisco Chronicle
• "Bright Light and Cloud Shadows gives a more delicate sonic impression...Gao creates string sonorities from an imagined palette of pastels painting in gently evolving textures and with tender long-breathed brush strokes.”
Washington
Post
• "Dance Fury by Gao Ping...virtuosic and original, the crowd ate it up.”
Cincinnati
Enquirer
• "[Gao] Ping’s The Mountain for two pianos was by far the more interesting. It contains a powerful central section, a simultaneous passacaglia and fugue.”
San
Francisco Classical Voice
• "Music which wants to be heard with ears of a child, full of wonder and amazement…. deep and vulnerable. It is becoming increasingly clear that he is possibly the archetype of the contemporary composer.”
Tokafi,
Germany
• "The man with 1001 tone colors. Here is tasteful and sincere music built to last.”
New
Zealand Listener
• "I strongly recommend this disc [Gao Ping’s "Chamber Music" on the NAXOS label] to those who like to get more familiar with contemporary music but are still a little hesitant.”
Klassikmagazin,
Germany
• "No-one ends a piece with such diaphanous delicacy as Gao.”
Ian
Dando, CANZONA (the yearbook of the Composers
Association of New Zealand)
• "Gao Ping plays his piece for piano and voice, Concealed Kisses, with dazzling virtuosity and sparkling wit.”
New
Zealand Geographic, January 2007
Links to articles about Gao Ping
• http://app.griffith.edu.au/03/griffith-news-now/?p=12466
•
http://www.tokafi.com/15questions/15-question-to-gao-ping
•
www.griffith.edu.au/school/qcgu/about/industry_and_community/resources/doc/gao-ping.doc